Stories

Dear God, Please heal my mother’s cancer. Please, please heal her. We can no longer afford her chemotherapy treatments. I had to...

You think I’m an ignorant savage. And you’ve been so many places; I guess it must be so. But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me. Now can there be so much that you don’t know? You don’t know…”

Oh bless me Lord for I have sinned It's been a lifetime since I last confessed I threw my crutches in "the river...

A short story by Marguerite Alcazaren de Leon.

This is dedicated to Carlos Celdran. For taking a stand against the CBCP, he was charged with "notoriously offending religious feelings." A...

Amateur (or should I say “immature) and defenders of certain Christian cults have a peculiar way of confronting the issues posted...

-Ano ka ba naman anak, tingnan mo nga yang suot mo. --Si Mama talaga, ako na naman ang nakita. -Hay naku Judith, paano ba namang... ---Hindi ka makikita ni Nanay, eh halos makita na ang kaluluwa mo dyan sa suot mo? Mano po, nay. -Kaawaan ka ng Diyos.

Today is International Women's Day! In addition to the usual links, we have some great articles discussing women fighting for equality and religious reform,women at CERN (Angels and Demons stuff, people!), and an opinion piece about ending maternal deaths. We also have an essay from Christopher Hitchen's brother about his faith and an expose about Scientology.

I was cheated. I was cheated when I was in school, not by my classmates but by the very exams that...